USAID Can No Longer Track $8B In Unspent Funds

The Associated Press reports:

The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration’s foreign funding freeze and idling of staff, a government watchdog warned Monday.

The new administration’s rapid dismantling of USAID has left oversight of the humanitarian aid “largely nonoperational,” the inspector general’s office for USAID said. That includes the agency’s greatly reduced ability to ensure no aid falls into the hands of violent extremist groups or goes astray in conflict zones, the watchdog said.

Scores of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters were turned away after the Trump administration stripped the aid agency of its lease.

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